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US6369947B1
US6369947B1 US09/308,809 US30880999A US6369947B1 US 6369947 B1 US6369947 B1 US 6369947B1 US 30880999 A US30880999 A US 30880999A US 6369947 B1 US6369947 B1 US 6369947B1
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  • the invention concerns a surface pattern of the kind set forth in the classifying portion of claim 1 .
  • Such surface patterns have a microscopically fine relief structure and are suitable as optical security elements for enhancing the degree of security in terms of forgery of value-bearing papers or securities and bonds, passes, means of payment and similar articles.
  • a surface pattern as set forth in the classifying portion of claim 1 is known from European patent application EP 247 471.
  • the surface pattern has three surface portions with an optically effective diffraction structure. Those structures diffract visible light according to the wavelength thereof at different diffraction angles.
  • the profile height of the grooves or furrows of the three structures is constant in each surface portion but it is fixed differently in each surface portion in such a way that for a given observer, the first structure diffracts blue light, the second structure green light and the third structure red light, with respective vanishing or minimum diffraction efficiency.
  • the first surface portion should appear dark at a first viewing angle, the second surface portion at a second viewing angle and the third surface portion at a third viewing angle, that is to say, a dark spot should abruptly change in position as the surface pattern is continually tilted.
  • the angle of incidence of the light impinging thereon also changes and therewith also the optical profile height of the structures. In that situation the condition that the predetermined spectral color is not diffracted or is diffracted only with a very low level of efficiency is no longer satisfied or it is satisfied only in exceptional cases.
  • the surface portions are also usually only relatively weakly visible in the other spectral colors. If the illuminating light source is also wide-spread, which is the case with diffuse daylight in the open air or under a neon tube, then the light is no longer incident from a single defined direction of incidence but impinges on the surface pattern from many directions of incidence. Therefore the surface pattern simultaneously diffracts light of various colors into the eye of the observer. That effect is further increased by the roughness of the substrate. In particular paper substrates have a relatively rough surface.
  • the observer therefore views the surface pattern for example from a direction into which only green light is diffracted upon illumination with a punctiform light source and when the substrate has a smooth surface, then red and blue light are also diffracted into that direction when the light source is spread and the substrate has a rough surface.
  • the desired effect is therefore greatly reduced or is no longer perceptible at all.
  • EP-712 012 A discloses a grating with a number of lines of more than 2000 lines per mm, which is effective as a color filter only in the zero diffraction order.
  • the light which is reflected at the structures of D 2 is no longer white but colored as, for certain depths in respect of the impressed structure, one color of the spectrum or the other is entirely extinguished.
  • color saturation and color purity can additionally be controlled by varying the peak-to-valley ratio. Tilting the grating structure about an axis in parallel relationship to the grating lines does not alter the color.
  • the object of the present invention is to propose a surface pattern having diffraction structures which generate optically variable effects which are clearly visible under virtually any illumination conditions and which can therefore be easily checked by the person in the street.
  • the invention consists of the features recited in claim 1 .
  • FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view of a surface pattern with diffractive structures.
  • FIG. 2 is a plus view of the surface pattern of FIG. 1 .
  • FIGS. 3 a - 3 d show diffracted light intensities.
  • FIGS. 4 a and b shows the surface pattern when viewed from selected angles.
  • FIGS. 5 a-c shows levels of diffraction intensity of a further surface pattern.
  • FIG. 6 shows a characteristic curve
  • FIG. 7 shows a graph
  • FIG. 8 shows a manner of modulation of the profile height of the surface pattern and the levels of intensity of the light diffracted into the first three orders of diffraction in dependence on the profile height.
  • FIGS. 9 a-c shows the surface pattern when viewed from directions associated with three different orders of diffraction.
  • FIG. 10 shows the surface pattern with a surface portion whose contour facilitates the recognition of varying optical effects.
  • FIG. 11 shows the surface pattern with another surface portion with well-recognisable varying optical effects.
  • FIG. 12 shows a surface pattern with referencing elements.
  • FIG. 13 shows a surface pattern with linear elements
  • FIG. 14 shows a further surface pattern.
  • FIG. 1 is a cross-sectional view not to scale of a first surface pattern 1 with diffraction structures for producing optically variable effects.
  • the surface pattern 1 is in the form of a layer structure or laminate 2 .
  • Applied to a carrier layer 3 in the specified sequence are an intermediate layer 4 , a first lacquer layer 5 , an at least partially reflecting reflection layer 6 , a second lacquer layer 7 and an adhesive layer 8 .
  • the layers 3 through 8 form the layer structure or laminate 2 .
  • Embedded between the lacquer layers 5 and 7 are microscopically fine relief structures 9 which diffract and at least partially reflect light 10 which is incident at the angle ⁇ of incidence through the lacquer layer 5 .
  • the laminate 2 is stuck onto a substrate 11 to be protected, for example a document, with the adhesive layer 8 bearing against the substrate 11 .
  • the carrier layer 3 is pulled off.
  • An observer 12 who views the surface pattern 1 from a direction which includes the angle ⁇ to the line normal to the surface pattern 1 sees the light 13 which impinges on the surface pattern 1 from the side of the first lacquer layer 5 and which is reflected at the relief structures 9 and diffracted at the diffraction angle ⁇ .
  • the thickness and the refractive index n determine the optical properties of the reflection layer 6 , for example whether the reflection layer 6 is partially transmissive in relation to visible light and the surface of the substrate 11 is visible, or whether the reflection layer 6 is opaque.
  • the interface between the lacquer layers 5 and 7 can perform the function of the reflection layer 6 if the materials for the lacquer layers 5 and 7 differ in terms of the refractive index.
  • the relief structures 9 within at least a surface portion form a grating G with a constant number of lines L and a varying geometrical profile height h g .
  • the grating G extends in a plane whose Cartesian coordinates are identified by x and y. In FIG. 1 the x-direction is oriented perpendicularly to the plane of the drawing and the grooves or furrows 14 of the grating G are selected to be parallel to the x-direction.
  • the function g(x,y) describes the profile shape of a grating G′ of constant profile height
  • the function F(x,y) describes the modulation of the profile height of the grating G′.
  • the following applies for a sinusoidal grating G′ with grooves or furrows 14 parallel to the x-axis g ⁇ ( x , y ) sin ⁇ ( 2 ⁇ ⁇ d ⁇ ( y - y 0 ) )
  • the modulation function F(x, y) varies slowly in comparison with the spacing d of the furrows 14 of the grating G′.
  • the modulation function F can be aperiodic or periodic. In the case of a periodic modulation function F the modulation length is denoted by D.
  • the diffraction properties of the surface pattern 1 are determined by the optical properties of the reflection layer 6 and the optical profile height h of the relief structures 9 .
  • the optical profile height h is the product of the geometrical profile height h g of the relief structures 9 and the refractive index n of the lacquer layer 5 which covers the relief structures 9 on the side towards the viewer.
  • FIG. 2 shows a plan view of the surface pattern 1 with the single surface portion.
  • the surface portion is a circle 15 of the radius R.
  • the profile shape of the grating G′ is sinusoidal.
  • the optical profile height h of the grating G at the center point (x 0 , y 0 ) of the circle 15 is 150 nm and linearly increases towards the edge.
  • the optical profile height h 900 nm.
  • the profile height of the grating G′ is therefore modulated with an aperiodic, in portions steady, rotationally symmetrical function F.
  • a ⁇ ( x , y ) ⁇ 1 n ⁇ ( 150 2 ⁇ ⁇ nm + 750 2 ⁇ ⁇ nm * ( x - x 0 ) 2 + ( y - y 0 ) 2 R ) * ⁇ sin ⁇ ( 2 ⁇ ⁇ d ⁇ ( y - y 0 ) ) ⁇ ⁇ for ⁇ ⁇ ( x - x 0 ) 2 + ( y - y 0 ) 2 ⁇ R 2 . ( 1 )
  • x and y denote the Cartesian coordinates of any point and x 0 and y 0 denote the Cartesian coordinates of the center point of the circle 15 .
  • the geometrical profile height h g of the grating structure at the location h g 2 n ⁇ ( 75 ⁇ ⁇ nm + 375 ⁇ ⁇ nm * ( x - x 0 ) 2 + ( y - y 0 ) 2 R ) .
  • the example selected corresponds to a grating G of a sinusoidal profile shape, wherein the profile height changes slowly from one furrow 14 to another furrow 14 as the radius R is typically a few millimeters.
  • the viewer 12 then sees the surface pattern 1 for example at a viewing angle of ⁇ 35° as a blue surface, at a viewing angle of ⁇ 45° as a green surface and at a viewing angle of ⁇ 55° as a red surface.
  • the surface pattern 1 does not appear uniformly light but, according to the rotational symmetry of the profile height h(x,y), concentric rings are visible, with the color corresponding to the viewing angle ⁇ , of varying lightness and in varying numbers.
  • the optical effects which occur are on the one hand more easily describable and more easily understandable if the position of the surface pattern 1 is fixed with reference to the incident light 10 and the viewer 12 (FIG. 1) moves in order to adapt his viewing angle to the desired diffraction angle ⁇ .
  • a person in the street will usually not move his head to and fro in order to verify the effects described herein, but will tilt and/or turn the surface pattern 1 .
  • ⁇ 1 420 nm (blue) four light zones occur in the range of the optical profile height h of 150 nm through 900 nm.
  • the angle ⁇ of incidence (FIG. 1) of the impinging light 10 alters.
  • the variation in the angle of incidence ⁇ means however that the effective optical profile height h becomes smaller in accordance with the cosine of the angle of incidence ⁇ ′ (FIG. 1) in the lacquer layer 5 .
  • the consequence of this is that, at various viewing angles ⁇ ( ⁇ ) at which the same color is recognised, the width and lightness of the light zones already changes slightly as a result of that tilting alone.
  • the reduction in the effective optical profile height is limited to a fraction of the optical profile height h as, with a change in the angle of incidence ⁇ , for example from 0° through 30°, the angle ⁇ ′ in the lacquer layer 5 typically alters from 0° through 20° and the cosine of the angle of incidence ⁇ ′ alters by typically 6 percent. In that way the described optical effects are qualitatively retained.
  • the angle of incidence ⁇ (FIG. 1) of the light 10 is not sharply defined but includes a relatively large angular range. Accordingly the surface pattern 1 does not diffract the light of a single spectral color but light which is composed of adjacent spectral colors, in the direction associated with the viewing angle ⁇ . Because of the high number of lines of 1250 lines/mm, the colors which are greatly different are far apart in terms of angle, that is to say the spectral colors which are in superposed relationship in a viewing direction have related color shades, that is to say predominantly red or predominantly blue shades.
  • the overlapping of different spectral colors is further increased, More specifically spreading of a spectral color as a result of the roughness of the surface of a typical paper is about ⁇ 5° , that is to say the light of a spectral color is diffracted not only at the diffraction angle ⁇ but approximately at the angles ⁇ 5° through ⁇ +5°.
  • the mixed colors have color shades which can still always be recognised, because of the high number of lines. The described effects are therefore qualitatively retained even with an extensive light source and a rough substrate surface.
  • the surface pattern 1 also changes in a predetermined manner the polarisation of the diffracted and reflected light 13 (FIG. 1 ).
  • FIG. 3 d shows the levels of intensity of the light which is diffracted into the first diffraction order, for the wavelength 550 nm in the two polarisation planes perpendicularly (solid line 28 ) and parallel (broken line 29 ) to the grating furrows 14 (FIG. 1) which in total give the intensity curve shown in FIG. 3 b .
  • the position of a polarisation filter, which is held over the surface pattern 1 is set for the light in accordance with the solid curve and then the position of the polarisation filter is altered through +90°, then from the point of view of the viewer the pattern of the light rings in accordance with the solid-line curve changes to the pattern corresponding to the broken-line curve. If therefore a viewer observes the surface pattern 1 (FIG. 1) with perpendicularly incident light at an angle of about 45° through the polarisation filter, he will observe how the surface pattern 1 is represented as a brightness pattern which is dependent on the position of the polarisation filter, that is to say the number and the position of the concentric rings vary when the polarisation filter is turned. Similarly, the will also perceive in the zero diffraction order, that is to say in specular reflection, an arrangement of concentric color rings which is dependent on the position of the polarisation filter.
  • h g h 0 * ( 1 + ⁇ * sin ⁇ ( 2 ⁇ ⁇ D ⁇ y ) ) ( 2 )
  • the optical behaviour and characteristics of the stripes will now be described with reference to FIG. 7 .
  • the profile shape A varies in accordance with equation (2).
  • Plotted on the ordinate in FIG. 7 are the optical profile height h and in accordance with curve shown in FIG. 6 the diffraction angle ⁇ at which the stripes with the profile height h appear at their lightness.
  • the local differential coefficient of the function with which the optical profile height h is modulated is not constant.
  • the extent of the modulation depth range which appears light at a predetermined viewing angle ⁇ is in this example about 300 nm and is approximately independent of the profile height h. Accordingly the gradient of the differential coefficient acts directly on the width of the light zones which appear light at the viewing angle ⁇ . Upon tilting about the x-axis therefore it is not only the position of the light and dark zones that changes, but also the extent thereof in the y-direction depending on the differential coefficient of the modulating function.
  • the furrows 14 (FIG. 1) extend parallel to the x-direction. Modulation of the optical profile height h of the surface pattern 1 (FIG.
  • the surface pattern 1 When the surface pattern 1 is illuminated with a light source which is extensive in terms of angle the surface pattern 1 diffracts in the direction associated with the viewing angle ⁇ not the light of a single spectral color but mixed light which is composed of a plurality of spectral colors.
  • the dark zones 19 which spread from the corners of the surface pattern 1 also markedly increase in width in the tilting movement in each case when changing from one diffraction order to the next as the first maximum of the intensity curves is displaced with increasing diffraction order towards greater profile heights h.
  • the position of the light and dark zones therefore changes partially steadily (within a diffraction order) and partially abruptly (at the transition from one diffraction order to the next).
  • the geometrical shape or contour of the surface pattern 1 is also particularly suitable for referencing the movement of the light zones.
  • the geometrical boundary of the surface pattern 1 also varies with the period D: the width B(y) of the surface pattern 1 in the x-direction is modulated in the y-direction by the period D. Therefore the altered y-position of the light and dark zones is additionally expressed in accordance with the width B(y) in a differing length of the stripes perceived and can therefore be very easily recognised.
  • FIG. 10 a shows the stripes 20 which in the configuration in accordance with Example 2 are light at the viewing angle ⁇ 25°
  • FIG. 10 b shows the stripes 21 which are light at the viewing angle ⁇ 75°.
  • the contour of the surface pattern 1 represents an additional configurational element and the extent and, the position of the light stripes reflect the contour of the surface pattern 1 upon a change in the viewing angle ⁇ .
  • the boundary can be achieved in many different ways: the area surrounding the surface pattern 1 can be for example a matt structure or a mirror. In addition it can be so altered by local removal of the reflection layer 6 (FIG. 1) or by being subsequently printed upon with an opaque ink that it no longer has an optical-diffraction effect. Local transfer of the surface pattern 1 onto the substrate is also possible by means of a punch, in which case only the surface pattern 1 but not the surface surrounding the surface pattern 1 is transferred.
  • the surface pattern 1 represents a line-like surface.
  • a point P moves along the line in the y-direction over a distance y 1 .
  • the point P moves in the x-direction by a distance x 1 which is markedly greater, for example greater by a factor of 10 , than the distance y 1 .
  • the position of the light zones of the surface pattern 1 in turn moves, in which case now however a small change in the y-position of the light zones is linked to a large change in the x-position of the light zones.
  • the displacement of the light zones when the tilting movement occurs is therefore very readily recognisable as a movement of a light spot or point along the line.
  • the combination of a plurality of such surface portions on a surface serving as a background forms a surface pattern 1 which combines movements of light and dark zones in many different ways.
  • modulation of the profile height h is implemented with the sine function sin( ⁇ overscore (k) ⁇ * ⁇ overscore (x) ⁇ ) so that the profile height h is proportional to 1+b*sin( ⁇ overscore (k) ⁇ * ⁇ overscore (x) ⁇ ), wherein the length of the k-vector is 2 ⁇ ⁇ D
  • the stripes extend along a direction which includes the angle ⁇ 90° to the x-axis and when the surface pattern 1 is tilted about the x-axis they move along the direction which is defined by the angle ⁇ .
  • the geometrical contour (shape) of the surface pattern 1 can be adapted to the movement of the light stripes in such a way that the length thereof changes markedly in such movement.
  • the surface patterns 1 as described hereinbefore have a single optically-effective surface in which the furrows 14 (FIG. 1) of the basic grating are parallel. It is now possible to form further surface patterns with a plurality of diffraction-effective surface portions arranged in side-by-side relationship and/or superposed graphic motifs which for example are applied by a printing procedure, in regard to which the orientation of the furrows of the gratings, the profile shape of the gratings and/or the nature of modulation of the optical profile height h are different so that the predetermined variations in brightness can be so characteristically and easily impressed in the human memory that the person in the street can easily distinguish the original surface pattern 1 from imitations.
  • FIG. 12 shows such a surface pattern 1 with two surface portions 22 and 23 which represent a cross and a background.
  • the two surface portions 22 and 23 have a grating structure involving the same orientation of the furrows 14 (FIG. 1) and the same number of lines.
  • the profile height h of the grating structure of each surface portion 22 and 23 respectively is modulated with a periodic function f 1 (y) and f 2 (y) respectively along the y-axis.
  • the greatest dimension of the surface portion 22 in the y-direction is preferably an integral multiple of the period D.
  • the zones of different brightness in the two surface portions 22 , 23 are in the same position, but they move at different rates when tilting occurs.
  • the line which is visible in FIG. 12 as mutual boundaries of the surface portions 22 and 23 is a third surface portion 24 which contains a diffraction grating with for example 1200 lines/nm.
  • the line appears in a changing color in a predetermined range of tilt angles and it appears in the form of a dark line outside that range of tilt angles. The viewer can orient himself in relation to that line when he verifies the change in the light and dark zones when the surface pattern is tilted.
  • the line represents a stationary element whose length does not change when the tilting movement occurs so that it can serve for referencing of the movement of the light and/or dark zones.
  • FIG. 13 shows a further surface pattern with surface portions in the form of lines 25 .
  • Each line 25 has a grating structure with a different orientation of the furrows 14 (FIG. 1 ).
  • the profile height of the grating structures is modulated with a periodic function f(x,y).
  • f(x,y) When the surface pattern is turned about an axis perpendicular to its plane at least one line 25 or the other lights up, in which case the line 25 has light and dark zones of the same color, according to the modulation involved, that is to say for example it lights up as a green line of zones involving different brightness, that is to say, in the form of a broken line.
  • the color in which the viewer 12 perceives the line depends on the viewing angle ⁇ .
  • the function f(x,y) can be the same or however also different, for each of the surface portions in the form of lines 25 .
  • the function f(x,y) can be adapted to the element in line form, for example in such a way that the function f(x,y) is periodic with the distance along the line. It will be self-apparent that the function f(x,y) does not need to be periodic.
  • FIG. 14 shows a further surface pattern with the two rectangular surface portions 22 and 23 .
  • the profile height h is established symmetrically from the center of the rectangle towards the edge in such a way that the profile height h is constant along concentric lines 26 shown in broken line in the drawing.
  • the profile height h is selected to be symmetrical with respect to the center in such a way that the profile height h is dependent only on the angle in relation to the x-axis but not on the spacing from the center. Therefore when the surface pattern is turned and/or tilted the two surface portions 22 and 23 create patterns with light and dark zones which involve a different motional configuration.
  • this surface pattern In a development of this surface pattern the area covered by the surface portion 22 is rastered into points, the dimensions of which are at most 0.15 mm. In this case the points are associated alternately with the representations of the surface portions 22 and 23 in accordance with the teaching of European patent EP 330 738 so that the variation in brightness of the two patterns can be seen in the small rectangle 22 .
  • the optical profile height h was varied insofar as the geometrical profile height h g of the relief structures 9 (FIG. 1) was modulated but the refractive index of the lacquer layer 5 covering the relief structures 9 was left constant.
  • Another option even if technologically more complicated and expensive, is modulation of the refractive index of the lacquer layer 5 or modulation of the refractive index of the lacquer layer 5 and the geometrical profile height h g of relief structures 9 in order to achieve the desired modulation of the optical profile height h.
  • Refractive index modulation can be achieved for example by local doping of the lacquer layer 5 with a dye.
  • grating structures with straight furrows have preferably been described herein, although it is also possible to use curved furrows.
  • Modulation of the profile height h of the grating with either a monotonically rising function or with a periodic function, in which respect the function is not rectangular, produces the described continual movement of light and dark zones upon a change in the viewing angle.
  • the surface pattern appears either pronouncedly colored with strong colors or, for example in daylight or in the light of a lamp or a neon tube, it appears achromatically in a mixed color.
  • Copying a surface pattern 1 according to the invention is found to be a difficult procedure.
  • Holographic copying processes are not capable of copying the profile shape and the profile height of the relief structures 9 (FIG. 1) so that a copy of that kind generates altered optical effects in comparison with the original.
  • the relief structures 9 are covered with the lacquer layer 5 the geometrical profile height h g and the profile shape thereof are also not directly measurable. Removal of the lacquer layer 5 without damaging or destroying the relief structures 9 is very difficult. Accordingly exact copying is also practically out of the question.

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